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  2. Black Sea - Wikipedia

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    A 16th-century map of the Black Sea by Diogo Homem Greek colonies (8th–3rd century BCE) of the Black Sea (Euxine, or "hospitable" sea) The Black Sea was a busy waterway on the crossroads of the ancient world: the Balkans to the west, the Eurasian steppes to the north, the Caucasus and Central Asia to the east, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia to ...

  3. Pontus - Wikipedia

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    Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea) Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology; Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern-day Turkey; Kingdom of Pontus or Pontic Empire, a state founded in 281 BC; Diocese of Pontus, a diocese of the later Roman Empire

  4. Pontus (region) - Wikipedia

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    'sea', [2]) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland (rising to the Pontic Alps in the east) by the Greeks who colonized the area in the Archaic period and derived from the Greek name of the Black ...

  5. Pontic Greeks - Wikipedia

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    After the colonization of the shores of the Black Sea, known until then to the Greek world as Pontos Axeinos (Inhospitable Sea), the name changed to Pontos Euxeinos (Hospitable Sea). In time, as the numbers of Greeks settling in the region grew significantly, more colonies were established along the whole Black Sea coastline of what is now ...

  6. Themiscyra (Pontus) - Wikipedia

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    An amazon fighter statue in Terme of Samsun Province in Turkey. Themiscyra (/ ˌ θ ɛ m ɪ ˈ s k ɪr ə /; Ancient Greek: Θεμίσκυρα Themiskyra) was an ancient Greek town in northeastern Anatolia; it was situated on the southern coast of the Black Sea, near the mouth of the Thermodon, probably at or near modern Terme.

  7. Pontus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    With the sea goddess Thalassa (whose own name simply means "sea" but is derived from a Pre-Greek root), he fathered all sea life. [2] [6] [7] [8] In a Roman sculpture of the 2nd century AD, Pontus, rising from seaweed, grasps a rudder with his right hand and leans on the prow of a ship.

  8. Euxine abyssal plain - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the Black Sea, from NASA’s World Wind globe software. The Euxine abyssal plain is a physiographic province of the Black Sea, an abyssal plain in its central parts. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek name Euxeinos Pontos (Εὔξεινος Πόντος) of the Black Sea.

  9. Kingdom of Pontus - Wikipedia

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    Pontic culture represented a synthesis between Iranian, Anatolian and Greek elements, with the former two mostly associated with the interior parts, and the latter more so with the coastal region. By the time of Mithridates VI Eupator, Greek was the official language of the Kingdom, though Anatolian languages continued to be spoken in the interior.